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Thursday, March 16, 2006
Charity at home, institutions
Continued from page 1A
individuals in the Afiican
American community who
are in the position to give
has not been the best,”
Lacey says there may be a
genuine disconnect between
those in the community who
can afford to donate funds to
‘Tt could be that they are
giving to the larger founda
tions,” she said. “It’s impor
tant for all of us to give, but
the African American com
munity should give to orga
nizations hke mine becaxise
90 percent of my business
benefits Afiican American
folks.”
Marybeth Gasman, an
assistant professor in the
graduate school of education
at the University of
Pennsjdvania, said the histo
ry of black philanthropy
springs fium historic efforts
to overcome economic and
racial oppression. Tt mani
fests in many ways - tithing
at a church, or volunteering
for community projects.
“The history of black phil
anthropy shows that blacks
are motivated by those who
are close to them - efforts
that make a difference in the
daily lives of other Afiican
Americans,” she wrote in an
article for the journal On
Philanthropy, a publication
for prof^sionals at non-prof
it agencies. “In many cases,
their philanthropy has been
a response to discrimination:
slavery and segregation in
the past; inequality in educa
tion and the workplace
today”
Jacquelin Peters, a pro
gram specialist at 100 Black
Men of Greater Charlotte,
said the organization usual
ly has to rely on generating
funds fium more convention
al sources.
“The most help has been
through oim ticketed
events,” Peters said. ‘T would
say that the strongest sup
port from the Afiican
American community is
through our revenue
events,”
\Sith the Afiican American
Community Foundation
Award Grant giving $27,400
to fom non-profit organiza
tions such as the Exodus
Foundation, New Creation
Christian Chvirch, and
Stratford Richardson
YMCA. The foundation
which was started in 1994
has awarded a total of
$187,837 in grants benefit
ing 34 organizations
throughout the Charlotte
“We are bifilding a legacy
of philanthropy among
Afiican Americans who
always have been generous
givers to their churches,
alma maters and family,”
said Board Chair, Mary E.
Wilson. “The Foimdation
offers the
opportunity
for these same
people to use a
broader brush
and make
donations
throughout I
the entire D. Stroud
community.”
Individual giving in the
African American
Community tends to rise
when a fund raising takes on
personal meaning, according
to Daisy Stroud, who foimd-
ed the G^on L. Stroud and
Daisy Spears Stroud
Scholarship at Johnson C,
Smith and Fayetteville State
universities and hosted its
first major event last month
at ImaginOn uptown
‘We’re brand new as far as
our formdation is con
cerned,” Stroud said. “For
our particular fundraiser,
the money came fix)m indi
viduals.”
Historic airfield
hosts modem fliers
Continued from page 2A
• Sleeping rooms for transient pilots: and
• A sin^e-space airplane hanger.
The new facility is part of an expansion project that will
include a museum being built by the National Park Ssvice, a
new airport terminal, an additional hanger for aiiplanes, and a
new parking lotNAI also announced that it is partnering with
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Service, and the City of Tliskegee to make the 2006 Memorial
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annual Memorial Week^d Fly-In — in which NAI members
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The Fly-In features:
• An air show at Moton Field;
• A conc^ starring Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, and
Blue Magic; and
• A banquet in which National Newspaper Publishers
Association Editor-in Chief George Curry will be the keynote
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